It is "interesting" how the UGCC has taken to him, a Belorussian canonized by the Latin Poles at the Vatican.

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You and I may not agree on very much, Ialmisry; but regarding this issue I must say that I myself have had trouble understanding the attitude of many Catholics toward him.

I always find it helpful to disregard the propaganda of either side, so I dismiss Orthodox propoganda about Catholic saints and I dismiss Latin Catholic propaganda about Orthodox saints and when it comes to Eastern Catholic saints I dismiss both.

Our Jesuit "iconographer" friend has produced this piece of schlock, featuring Sts Andrew Bobola and Peter the Aleut. All very chummy. I'd love to know who could venerate such an image in good conscience ....

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Our Jesuit "iconographer" friend has produced this piece of schlock, featuring Sts Andrew Bobola and Peter the Aleut. All very chummy. I'd love to know who could venerate such an image in good conscience ....

You mean without bursting out laughing? Well, as Roman Catholic iconography goes, people have been laughing at it for a thousand years.

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Our Jesuit "iconographer" friend has produced this piece of schlock, featuring Sts Andrew Bobola and Peter the Aleut. All very chummy. I'd love to know who could venerate such an image in good conscience ....

It is "interesting" how the UGCC has taken to him, a Belorussian canonized by the Latin Poles at the Vatican.

Hmmm, did you by chance copy and paste the links I had posted on the Byzcath Forum on this very same topic?

You are mistaken about the "Latin Poles in the Vatican" canonizing him. Only the Pope can canonize and there has only been one Latin Pole who's been Pope and he was not yet born to canonize St. Josaphat in 1867.

It is "interesting" how the UGCC has taken to him, a Belorussian canonized by the Latin Poles at the Vatican.

Hmmm, did you by chance copy and paste the links I had posted on the Byzcath Forum on this very same topic?

You are mistaken about the "Latin Poles in the Vatican" canonizing him. Only the Pope can canonize and there has only been one Latin Pole who's been Pope and he was not yet born to canonize St. Josaphat in 1867.

No, I am correct: the file was collecting dust until the Polish hierarchy running Galicia dusted it off and demanded his canonization and pushed it in the Polish (but not the Ruthenian) press, his cult being pushed in the Polish insurection of the January Uprising, and it was widely seen as a sign of support to the rebellious Poles (the loyal Ruthenians being quite forgotten).

I don't recall on the link. Perhaps.

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I visualize the Swiss Guards at attention around a cannon in San Pietro Sq., their supreme pontiff lighting the fuse, a statue-or better, the remains-of ol' Josaphat sticking out the mouth of the cannon.

Too bad I don't know how to photo crop.

Of course, we have our own cannon for the Vatican's canonization:

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Our Jesuit "iconographer" friend has produced this piece of schlock, featuring Sts Andrew Bobola and Peter the Aleut. All very chummy. I'd love to know who could venerate such an image in good conscience ....

Our Jesuit "iconographer" friend has produced this piece of schlock, featuring Sts Andrew Bobola and Peter the Aleut. All very chummy. I'd love to know who could venerate such an image in good conscience ....

Well, at least St. Andrew Bobola really existed...

Yes, the Vatican would prefer that St. Peter the Aleut remained a saint known only to God.

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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth

Our Jesuit "iconographer" friend has produced this piece of schlock, featuring Sts Andrew Bobola and Peter the Aleut. All very chummy. I'd love to know who could venerate such an image in good conscience ....

Well, at least St. Andrew Bobola really existed...

Yes, the Vatican would prefer that St. Peter the Aleut remained a saint known only to God.

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